Combating Misinformation “An Arm and a Leg” is a podcast produced by Kaiser Health News and Public Road Productions. Often they combat misinformation regarding health care. In one episode, former health care executive Wendell Potter talks about his transformation from health care executive to health care whistleblower. Here’s a transcript of the episode. Potter spent 2020 publishing
For-Profits Decrease Care Skilled Nursing News reported on how private equity investors, vulture capitalists, and Wall Street exploit nursing home industry finances. Leveraging real estate and siphoning funds to individual owners cause short-staffing and decrease in quality of care. A study identified a series of negative trends caused by private equity ownership. Cutting corners to
Systemic Problems The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a failure to protect nursing home residents and staff. As a nursing home lawyer for over 25 years, these failures were long-standing and systemic. Persistent problems with nursing home care existed for years. Often because of too few and inadequately trained frontline staff. Solutions do exist. Safe staffing, transparency,
Staffing Data OnShift® announced that SavaSeniorCare Administrative and Consulting, LLC, one of the nation’s largest skilled nursing providers, has selected OnShift’s human capital management platform to 15,000 employees. SavaSeniorCare is using OnShift’s employee scheduling and financial wellness software with OnShift’s recruiting, hiring, time and attendance, and employee engagement solutions. “Our workforce is the heart of
Our new Attorney General will be Judge Merrick Garland. Five years after Republicans blocked his Supreme Court nomination. He is honest, competent, and well-qualified. His reputation and integrity will restore the dignity of the Department of Justice. Garland told senators that the Capitol insurrection investigation is his first priority as attorney general. He will apply
We need more transparency in the nursing home industry and government funds. Bloomberg Law reported Senator Elizabeth Warren’s letter to Genesis nursing home chain. Warren wrote that funds received under the Cares Act “should not be used to line the pockets of company executives who fail to address the public health threats from the pandemic,
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